Combine that with real world road data and you have a product that s destined to become a best seller.
Black marble night lighting.
Black marble takes flight simulations dawn dusk and night aviation to levels of realism never before realized this product includes volumetric night lighting that looks real.
A highly configurable and the most advanced night lighting system created to date providing global and native worldwide road network coverage to all major simulation platforms.
This composite image of the earth as a black marble shows asia and australia in.
The corrected nighttime radiances resulting in a superior retrieval of nighttime lights at short time scales and a reduction in background noise enable quantitative analyses of daily seasonal and annual variations.
Nasa s black marble nighttime lights product suite vnp46 is available at 500 m resolution since january 2012 with data from the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs day night band dnb onboard the suomi national polar orbiting platform snpp.